For the last few days officers have been showing up at camps along Paris’ Saint-Denis canal in the evening to prevent migrants from settling for the night, in an escalation of bully tactics. The area, has been an ongoing zone of contention since France opted to wage an increasingly callous war on homeless and sans
Campaigners are gearing up for the next round of fighting against Macron’s planned tightening of deportation laws in the early part of 2018 with a major rally this Saturday. The CSP93 campaign (named for the 1993 Pasqua Law revoking automatic citizenship to babies born on French soil) made the initial callout for a rally starting 2.30pm
A stunning victory for migrant workers could be on the cards following a two-week occupation of Semmaris Tower in Paris by 105 people demanding they and 23 other comrades be regularised and given full rights at work. The sans-papiers (lacking ID papers), who are organised with section 94 of the CGT union, have been holed up
Not only are we still around, we’re also setting up our own non-hierarchical school, organising a free cafe, and collaborating with other grassroots groups ~ The LMA Collective ~ There’s a story of how Lambeth Mutual Aid began, as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic: that immediate desire people had in March 2020 to support
Javier Milei’s ultra-liberal policies have doubled the prices of medicines and essential services, with a sharp decline in the value of pensions ~ Rob Latchford ~ A demonstration by pensioners, supported by football fans and social organisations, in Argentina on Wednesday 12 March ended in violent clashes with the police, the arrest of at least
The Glasgow anarchist poet and propagandist was a seeker of peace ~ Ethel McDonald ~ One of the leading lights of contemporary anarchism, John Couzin, died at home in Glasgow, Scotland in his partners arms aged almost 91.
Richest man’s unhinged incompetence fuels backlash against oligarchy ~ Rob Latchford ~ A person dressed in black shot at several Tesla vehicles before igniting two of them at a repair facility in Las Vegas in the early hours of Tuesday morning (18 March).
How the Russian anarcho-syndicalist became a political journalist, ended up in the Red Army, and helped organise Kropotkin’s funeral ~ Nikolai Gerasimov ~ In the 1930s, Chicago was the capital of American gangsters.
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